Inductors;
Circuits;
Modulation;
Switching circuits;
Switches;
Voltage;
Zero voltage switching;
Bidirectional DC-DC converter;
soft-switching;
inductor current ripples;
tri-state control;
efficiency improvement;
BOOST CONVERTER;
ZVS;
D O I:
10.23919/PCMP.2023.000248
中图分类号:
TE [石油、天然气工业];
TK [能源与动力工程];
学科分类号:
0807 ;
0820 ;
摘要:
This paper introduces a tri-state modulation technique for a soft-switching bidirectional DC-DC converter (BDC). This method maintains the soft-switching condition and introduces a freewheeling interval that reduces the rise and fall times of the inductor current, effectively suppressing inductor current ripples. Additionally, the tri-state modulation provides an extra degree of freedom, enabling optimization for reduced operating losses. The paper details the operation principles of tri-state modulation in both buck and boost modes and discusses optimization strategies for minimizing losses. An experimental setup is developed to validate the tri-state modulation approach, where switching waveforms and efficiency are measured. The experimental results confirm that the proposed method achieves soft-switching conditions, suppresses inductor current ripples, and provides higher efficiency compared to conventional hard-switching BDC and typical soft-switching BDC.